180daa560SRoman Zippelconfig ARCH 280daa560SRoman Zippel string 380daa560SRoman Zippel option env="ARCH" 480daa560SRoman Zippel 580daa560SRoman Zippelconfig KERNELVERSION 680daa560SRoman Zippel string 780daa560SRoman Zippel option env="KERNELVERSION" 880daa560SRoman Zippel 9face4374SRoman Zippelconfig DEFCONFIG_LIST 10face4374SRoman Zippel string 11b2670eacSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso depends on !UML 12face4374SRoman Zippel option defconfig_list 13face4374SRoman Zippel default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" 14face4374SRoman Zippel default "/etc/kernel-config" 15face4374SRoman Zippel default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" 1673531905SSam Ravnborg default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" 17face4374SRoman Zippel default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" 18face4374SRoman Zippel 19b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiterconfig CONSTRUCTORS 20b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter bool 21b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter depends on !UML 22b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter default y 23b99b87f7SPeter Oberparleiter 24ff0cfc66SAl Boldimenu "General setup" 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EXPERIMENTAL 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers 411da177e4SLinus Torvalds (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, 431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and 441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds using these features, you should probably say N here, which will 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BROKEN || !SMP 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCK_KERNEL 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SMP || PREEMPT 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 72dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 32 if !UML 73dd673bcaSAdrian Bunk default 128 if UML 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7534ad92c2SRandy Dunlap Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment 7634ad92c2SRandy Dunlap variables passed to init from the kernel command line. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LOCALVERSION 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds string "Local version - append to kernel release" 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This will show up when you type uname, for example. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds The string you set here will be appended after the contents of 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds any files with a filename matching localversion* in your 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds be a maximum of 64 characters. 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 89aaebf433SRyan Andersonconfig LOCALVERSION_AUTO 90aaebf433SRyan Anderson bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" 91aaebf433SRyan Anderson default y 92aaebf433SRyan Anderson help 93aaebf433SRyan Anderson This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a 946e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current 956e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day top of tree revision. 96aaebf433SRyan Anderson 97aaebf433SRyan Anderson A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion 986e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be 99aaebf433SRyan Anderson appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value 1006e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. 101aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1026e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced 1036e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day by running the command: 1046e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1056e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD 1066e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day 1076e5a5420SRobert P. J. Day which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".) 108aaebf433SRyan Anderson 1092e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 1102e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1112e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1122e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 1132e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1142e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1152e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvinconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 1162e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin bool 1172e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin 1187dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1197dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool 1207dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 12130d65dbfSAlain Knaffchoice 12230d65dbfSAlain Knaff prompt "Kernel compression mode" 12330d65dbfSAlain Knaff default KERNEL_GZIP 1247dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP || HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 || HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA || HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 12530d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 12630d65dbfSAlain Knaff The linux kernel is a kind of self-extracting executable. 12730d65dbfSAlain Knaff Several compression algorithms are available, which differ 12830d65dbfSAlain Knaff in efficiency, compression and decompression speed. 12930d65dbfSAlain Knaff Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. 13030d65dbfSAlain Knaff Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. 13130d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13230d65dbfSAlain Knaff If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed 13330d65dbfSAlain Knaff kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older 13430d65dbfSAlain Knaff version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was 13530d65dbfSAlain Knaff supplied by Christian Ludwig) 13630d65dbfSAlain Knaff 13730d65dbfSAlain Knaff High compression options are mostly useful for users, who 13830d65dbfSAlain Knaff are low on disk space (embedded systems), but for whom ram 13930d65dbfSAlain Knaff size matters less. 14030d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14130d65dbfSAlain Knaff If in doubt, select 'gzip' 14230d65dbfSAlain Knaff 14330d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_GZIP 14430d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Gzip" 1452e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP 14630d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 1477dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre The old and tried gzip compression. It provides a good balance 1487dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre between compression ratio and decompression speed. 14930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 15030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_BZIP2 15130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "Bzip2" 1522e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2 15330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 15430d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate. 1552e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Decompression speed is slowest among the three. The kernel 1562e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip. 1572e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you 1582e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting. 15930d65dbfSAlain Knaff 16030d65dbfSAlain Knaffconfig KERNEL_LZMA 16130d65dbfSAlain Knaff bool "LZMA" 1622e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA 16330d65dbfSAlain Knaff help 16430d65dbfSAlain Knaff The most recent compression algorithm. 16530d65dbfSAlain Knaff Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other 1662e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin two. Compression is slowest. The kernel size is about 33% 1672e9f3bddSH. Peter Anvin smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip. 16830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1697dd65febSAlbin Tonnerreconfig KERNEL_LZO 1707dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre bool "LZO" 1717dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO 1727dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre help 1737dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel 1747dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre size is about about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed 1757dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre (both compression and decompression) is the fastest. 1767dd65febSAlbin Tonnerre 17730d65dbfSAlain Knaffendchoice 17830d65dbfSAlain Knaff 1791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SWAP 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" 1819361401eSDavid Howells depends on MMU && BLOCK 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your computer. If unsure say Y. 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SYSVIPC 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "System V IPC" 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds you'll need to say Y here. 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 204a5494dcdSEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSVIPC_SYSCTL 205a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman bool 206a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSVIPC 207a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman depends on SYSCTL 208a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman default y 209a5494dcdSEric W. Biederman 2101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig POSIX_MQUEUE 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "POSIX Message Queues" 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds queues every message has a priority which decides about succession 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message 218b0e37650SRobert P. J. Day queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds operations on message queues. 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 226bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallynconfig POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL 227bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn bool 228bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on POSIX_MQUEUE 229bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn depends on SYSCTL 230bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn default y 231bdc8e5f8SSerge E. Hallyn 2321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting" 2341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the 2361da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds information includes things such as creation time, owning user, 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to the user level program to do useful things with this 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds default n 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available 25537a4c940SS.Çağlar Onur at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 257c757249aSShailabh Nagarconfig TASKSTATS 258c757249aSShailabh Nagar bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" 259c757249aSShailabh Nagar depends on NET 260c757249aSShailabh Nagar default n 261c757249aSShailabh Nagar help 262c757249aSShailabh Nagar Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the 263c757249aSShailabh Nagar generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the 264c757249aSShailabh Nagar statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as 265c757249aSShailabh Nagar responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user 266c757249aSShailabh Nagar space on task exit. 267c757249aSShailabh Nagar 268c757249aSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 269c757249aSShailabh Nagar 270ca74e92bSShailabh Nagarconfig TASK_DELAY_ACCT 271ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2726f44993fSShailabh Nagar depends on TASKSTATS 273ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar help 274ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system 275ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping 276ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities 277ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc. 278ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 279ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar Say N if unsure. 280ca74e92bSShailabh Nagar 28118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_XACCT 28218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)" 28318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASKSTATS 28418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 28518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect extended task accounting data and send the data 28618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan to userland for processing over the taskstats interface. 28718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 28818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 28918f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 29018f705f4SAlexey Dobriyanconfig TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING 29118f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29218f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan depends on TASK_XACCT 29318f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan help 29418f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this 29518f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan task has caused. 29618f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 29718f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan Say N if unsure. 29818f705f4SAlexey Dobriyan 2991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDIT 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Auditing support" 301804a6a49SChris Wright depends on NET 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AUDITSYSCALL 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable system-call auditing support" 310022382a5SKumar Gala depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64 || SUPERH) 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y if SECURITY_SELINUX 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, 315f368c07dSAmy Griffis such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please 316f368c07dSAmy Griffis ensure that INOTIFY is configured. 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 31874c3cbe3SAl Viroconfig AUDIT_TREE 31974c3cbe3SAl Viro def_bool y 32063c882a0SEric Paris depends on AUDITSYSCALL 32163c882a0SEric Paris select INOTIFY 32274c3cbe3SAl Viro 323c903ff83SMike Travismenu "RCU Subsystem" 324c903ff83SMike Travis 325c903ff83SMike Travischoice 326c903ff83SMike Travis prompt "RCU Implementation" 32731c9a24eSPaul E. McKenney default TREE_RCU 328c903ff83SMike Travis 329c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU 330c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Tree-based hierarchical RCU" 331c903ff83SMike Travis help 332c903ff83SMike Travis This option selects the RCU implementation that is 333c903ff83SMike Travis designed for very large SMP system with hundreds or 334c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs. It also scales down nicely to 335c17ef453SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 336c903ff83SMike Travis 337f41d911fSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 338f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney bool "Preemptable tree-based hierarchical RCU" 339f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on PREEMPT 340f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney help 341f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 342f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney designed for very large SMP systems with hundreds or 343f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney thousands of CPUs, but for which real-time response 344bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney is also required. It also scales down nicely to 345bbe3eae8SPaul E. McKenney smaller systems. 346f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney 3479b1d82faSPaul E. McKenneyconfig TINY_RCU 3489b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney bool "UP-only small-memory-footprint RCU" 3499b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney depends on !SMP 3509b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney help 3519b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney This option selects the RCU implementation that is 3529b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney designed for UP systems from which real-time response 3539b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney is not required. This option greatly reduces the 3549b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney memory footprint of RCU. 3559b1d82faSPaul E. McKenney 356c903ff83SMike Travisendchoice 357c903ff83SMike Travis 358c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_TRACE 359c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Enable tracing for RCU" 3606b3ef48aSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 361c903ff83SMike Travis help 362c903ff83SMike Travis This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats 363c903ff83SMike Travis in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation. 364c903ff83SMike Travis 365c903ff83SMike Travis Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing 366c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if you are unsure. 367c903ff83SMike Travis 368c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT 369c903ff83SMike Travis int "Tree-based hierarchical RCU fanout value" 370c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 64 if 64BIT 371c903ff83SMike Travis range 2 32 if !64BIT 372f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 373c903ff83SMike Travis default 64 if 64BIT 374c903ff83SMike Travis default 32 if !64BIT 375c903ff83SMike Travis help 376c903ff83SMike Travis This option controls the fanout of hierarchical implementations 377c903ff83SMike Travis of RCU, allowing RCU to work efficiently on machines with 378c903ff83SMike Travis large numbers of CPUs. This value must be at least the cube 379c903ff83SMike Travis root of NR_CPUS, which allows NR_CPUS up to 32,768 for 32-bit 380c903ff83SMike Travis systems and up to 262,144 for 64-bit systems. 381c903ff83SMike Travis 382c903ff83SMike Travis Select a specific number if testing RCU itself. 383c903ff83SMike Travis Take the default if unsure. 384c903ff83SMike Travis 385c903ff83SMike Travisconfig RCU_FANOUT_EXACT 386c903ff83SMike Travis bool "Disable tree-based hierarchical RCU auto-balancing" 387f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU 388c903ff83SMike Travis default n 389c903ff83SMike Travis help 390c903ff83SMike Travis This option forces use of the exact RCU_FANOUT value specified, 391c903ff83SMike Travis regardless of imbalances in the hierarchy. This is useful for 392c903ff83SMike Travis testing RCU itself, and might one day be useful on systems with 393c903ff83SMike Travis strong NUMA behavior. 394c903ff83SMike Travis 395c903ff83SMike Travis Without RCU_FANOUT_EXACT, the code will balance the hierarchy. 396c903ff83SMike Travis 397c903ff83SMike Travis Say N if unsure. 398c903ff83SMike Travis 3998bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenneyconfig RCU_FAST_NO_HZ 4008bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney bool "Accelerate last non-dyntick-idle CPU's grace periods" 4018bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney depends on TREE_RCU && NO_HZ && SMP 4028bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney default n 4038bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney help 4048bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney This option causes RCU to attempt to accelerate grace periods 4058bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney in order to allow the final CPU to enter dynticks-idle state 4068bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney more quickly. On the other hand, this option increases the 4078bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney overhead of the dynticks-idle checking, particularly on systems 4088bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney with large numbers of CPUs. 4098bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4108bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say Y if energy efficiency is critically important, particularly 4118bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney if you have relatively few CPUs. 4128bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 4138bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney Say N if you are unsure. 4148bd93a2cSPaul E. McKenney 415c903ff83SMike Travisconfig TREE_RCU_TRACE 416f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU ) 417c903ff83SMike Travis select DEBUG_FS 418c903ff83SMike Travis help 419f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney This option provides tracing for the TREE_RCU and 420f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney TREE_PREEMPT_RCU implementations, permitting Makefile to 421f41d911fSPaul E. McKenney trivially select kernel/rcutree_trace.c. 422c903ff83SMike Travis 423c903ff83SMike Travisendmenu # "RCU Subsystem" 424c903ff83SMike Travis 4251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG 426f2443ab6SRoss Biro tristate "Kernel .config support" 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IKCONFIG_PROC 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables access to the kernel configuration file 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds through /proc/config.gz. 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 444794543a2SAlistair John Strachanconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT 445794543a2SAlistair John Strachan int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" 446794543a2SAlistair John Strachan range 12 21 447f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk default 17 448794543a2SAlistair John Strachan help 449794543a2SAlistair John Strachan Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. 450f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk Examples: 451f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 17 => 128 KB 452f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 16 => 64 KB 453f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 15 => 32 KB 454f17a32e9SAdrian Bunk 14 => 16 KB 455794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 13 => 8 KB 456794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 12 => 4 KB 457794543a2SAlistair John Strachan 4585cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4595cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# Architectures with an unreliable sched_clock() should select this: 4605cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki# 4615cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 4625cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool 4635cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 46423964d2dSLi Zefanmenuconfig CGROUPS 46523964d2dSLi Zefan boolean "Control Group support" 4660dea1168SKirill A. Shutemov depends on EVENTFD 467ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage help 46823964d2dSLi Zefan This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for 4695cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory 4705cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki controls or device isolation. 4715cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki See 4725cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki - Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt (CFS) 47345ce80fbSLi Zefan - Documentation/cgroups/ (features for grouping, isolation 47445ce80fbSLi Zefan and resource control) 475ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 476ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage Say N if unsure. 477ddbcc7e8SPaul Menage 47823964d2dSLi Zefanif CGROUPS 47923964d2dSLi Zefan 480006cb992SPaul Menageconfig CGROUP_DEBUG 481006cb992SPaul Menage bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem" 482006cb992SPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 483418d7d87SPaul Menage default n 484006cb992SPaul Menage help 485006cb992SPaul Menage This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that 486006cb992SPaul Menage exports useful debugging information about the cgroups 48723964d2dSLi Zefan framework. 488006cb992SPaul Menage 48923964d2dSLi Zefan Say N if unsure. 490006cb992SPaul Menage 491858d72eaSSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_NS 492858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem" 493858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS 494858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn help 495858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to 496858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces, 497858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart 498858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn jobs. 499858d72eaSSerge E. Hallyn 500dc52ddc0SMatt Helsleyconfig CGROUP_FREEZER 50123964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Freezer cgroup subsystem" 502dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley depends on CGROUPS 503dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley help 504dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a 505dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley cgroup. 506dc52ddc0SMatt Helsley 50708ce5f16SSerge E. Hallynconfig CGROUP_DEVICE 50808ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn bool "Device controller for cgroups" 50908ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn depends on CGROUPS && EXPERIMENTAL 51008ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn help 51108ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn Provides a cgroup implementing whitelists for devices which 51208ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn a process in the cgroup can mknod or open. 51308ce5f16SSerge E. Hallyn 5141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CPUSETS 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Cpuset support" 516db7f47cfSPaul Menage depends on CGROUPS 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 518d9fd8a6dSRandy Dunlap This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N if unsure. 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 52523964d2dSLi Zefanconfig PROC_PID_CPUSET 52623964d2dSLi Zefan bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" 52723964d2dSLi Zefan depends on CPUSETS 52823964d2dSLi Zefan default y 52923964d2dSLi Zefan 530d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiriconfig CGROUP_CPUACCT 531d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri bool "Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem" 532d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri depends on CGROUPS 533d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri help 534d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri Provides a simple Resource Controller for monitoring the 53523964d2dSLi Zefan total CPU consumed by the tasks in a cgroup. 536d842de87SSrivatsa Vaddagiri 537e552b661SPavel Emelianovconfig RESOURCE_COUNTERS 538e552b661SPavel Emelianov bool "Resource counters" 539e552b661SPavel Emelianov help 540e552b661SPavel Emelianov This option enables controller independent resource accounting 54123964d2dSLi Zefan infrastructure that works with cgroups. 542e552b661SPavel Emelianov depends on CGROUPS 543e552b661SPavel Emelianov 54400f0b825SBalbir Singhconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR 54500f0b825SBalbir Singh bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" 54600f0b825SBalbir Singh depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS 547cf475ad2SBalbir Singh select MM_OWNER 54800f0b825SBalbir Singh help 54984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous 55021acb9caSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) 55100f0b825SBalbir Singh 55200f0b825SBalbir Singh Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead 55384ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, 55484ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory 55584ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out 55684ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki at boot. 55700f0b825SBalbir Singh 55800f0b825SBalbir Singh Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really 55984ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable 56084ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to 56184ad6d70SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads. 562c9d5409fSLi Zefan (and lose benefits of memory resource controller) 56300f0b825SBalbir Singh 564cf475ad2SBalbir Singh This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which 565cf475ad2SBalbir Singh could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. 566cf475ad2SBalbir Singh 567c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyukiconfig CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP 568c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki bool "Memory Resource Controller Swap Extension(EXPERIMENTAL)" 569c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && SWAP && EXPERIMENTAL 570c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki help 571c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Add swap management feature to memory resource controller. When you 572c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki enable this, you can limit mem+swap usage per cgroup. In other words, 573c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki when you disable this, memory resource controller has no cares to 574c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki usage of swap...a process can exhaust all of the swap. This extension 575c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is useful when you want to avoid exhaustion swap but this itself 576c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki adds more overheads and consumes memory for remembering information. 577c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Especially if you use 32bit system or small memory system, please 578c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki be careful about enabling this. When memory resource controller 579c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki is disabled by boot option, this will be automatically disabled and 580c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki there will be no overhead from this. Even when you set this config=y, 581c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki if boot option "noswapaccount" is set, swap will not be accounted. 582627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Now, memory usage of swap_cgroup is 2 bytes per entry. If swap page 583627991a2SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki size is 4096bytes, 512k per 1Gbytes of swap. 584c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 5857c941438SDhaval Gianimenuconfig CGROUP_SCHED 5867c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group CPU scheduler" 5877c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CGROUPS 5887c941438SDhaval Giani default n 5897c941438SDhaval Giani help 5907c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU 5917c941438SDhaval Giani bandwidth allocation to such task groups. It uses cgroups to group 5927c941438SDhaval Giani tasks. 5937c941438SDhaval Giani 5947c941438SDhaval Gianiif CGROUP_SCHED 5957c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 5967c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_OTHER" 5977c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 5987c941438SDhaval Giani default CGROUP_SCHED 5997c941438SDhaval Giani 6007c941438SDhaval Gianiconfig RT_GROUP_SCHED 6017c941438SDhaval Giani bool "Group scheduling for SCHED_RR/FIFO" 6027c941438SDhaval Giani depends on EXPERIMENTAL 6037c941438SDhaval Giani depends on CGROUP_SCHED 6047c941438SDhaval Giani default n 6057c941438SDhaval Giani help 6067c941438SDhaval Giani This feature lets you explicitly allocate real CPU bandwidth 607*32bd7eb5SLi Zefan to task groups. If enabled, it will also make it impossible to 6087c941438SDhaval Giani schedule realtime tasks for non-root users until you allocate 6097c941438SDhaval Giani realtime bandwidth for them. 6107c941438SDhaval Giani See Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt for more information. 6117c941438SDhaval Giani 6127c941438SDhaval Gianiendif #CGROUP_SCHED 6137c941438SDhaval Giani 61423964d2dSLi Zefanendif # CGROUPS 615c077719bSKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 61623964d2dSLi Zefanconfig MM_OWNER 61723964d2dSLi Zefan bool 6185cdc38f9SKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 61988a22c98SKay Sieversconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED 620d47846c5SIngo Molnar bool 621d47846c5SIngo Molnar 622d47846c5SIngo Molnarconfig SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 6239e9868a7SUwe Kleine-König bool "enable deprecated sysfs features to support old userspace tools" 6249148fe87SRandy Dunlap depends on SYSFS 625f6ee649fSKay Sievers default n 626d47846c5SIngo Molnar select SYSFS_DEPRECATED 62788a22c98SKay Sievers help 628fce3e804SKay Sievers This option switches the layout of sysfs to the deprecated 629f6ee649fSKay Sievers version. Do not use it on recent distributions. 63088a22c98SKay Sievers 631fce3e804SKay Sievers The current sysfs layout features a unified device tree at 632fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/, which is able to express a hierarchy between 633fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices. If the deprecated option is set to Y, the 634fce3e804SKay Sievers unified device tree is split into a bus device tree at 635fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/devices/ and several individual class device trees at 636fce3e804SKay Sievers /sys/class/. The class and bus devices will be connected by 637fce3e804SKay Sievers "<subsystem>:<name>" and the "device" links. The "block" 638fce3e804SKay Sievers class devices, will not show up in /sys/class/block/. Some 639fce3e804SKay Sievers subsystems will suppress the creation of some devices which 640fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the unified device tree. 64188a22c98SKay Sievers 642fce3e804SKay Sievers This option is not a pure compatibility option that can 643fce3e804SKay Sievers be safely enabled on newer distributions. It will change the 644fce3e804SKay Sievers layout of sysfs to the non-extensible deprecated version, 645fce3e804SKay Sievers and disable some features, which can not be exported without 646fce3e804SKay Sievers confusing older userspace tools. Since 2007/2008 all major 647fce3e804SKay Sievers distributions do not enable this option, and ship no tools which 648fce3e804SKay Sievers depend on the deprecated layout or this option. 649fce3e804SKay Sievers 650fce3e804SKay Sievers If you are using a new kernel on an older distribution, or use 651fce3e804SKay Sievers older userspace tools, you might need to say Y here. Do not say Y, 652fce3e804SKay Sievers if the original kernel, that came with your distribution, has 653fce3e804SKay Sievers this option set to N. 65488a22c98SKay Sievers 655b86ff981SJens Axboeconfig RELAY 656b86ff981SJens Axboe bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" 657b86ff981SJens Axboe help 658b86ff981SJens Axboe This option enables support for relay interface support in 659b86ff981SJens Axboe certain file systems (such as debugfs). 660b86ff981SJens Axboe It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and 661b86ff981SJens Axboe facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to 662b86ff981SJens Axboe user space. 663b86ff981SJens Axboe 664b86ff981SJens Axboe If unsure, say N. 665b86ff981SJens Axboe 666c5289a69SPavel Emelyanovconfig NAMESPACES 667c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov bool "Namespaces support" if EMBEDDED 668c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov default !EMBEDDED 669c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov help 670c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov Provides the way to make tasks work with different objects using 671c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov the same id. For example same IPC id may refer to different objects 672c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov or same user id or pid may refer to different tasks when used in 673c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov different namespaces. 674c5289a69SPavel Emelyanov 67558bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanovconfig UTS_NS 67658bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov bool "UTS namespace" 67758bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES 67858bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov help 67958bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks see different info provided with the 68058bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov uname() system call 68158bfdd6dSPavel Emelyanov 682ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanovconfig IPC_NS 683ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov bool "IPC namespace" 684614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn depends on NAMESPACES && (SYSVIPC || POSIX_MQUEUE) 685ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov help 686ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to 687614b84cfSSerge E. Hallyn different IPC objects in different namespaces. 688ae5e1b22SPavel Emelyanov 689aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanovconfig USER_NS 690aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)" 691aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 692aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov help 693aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces 694aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov to provide different user info for different servers. 695aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov If unsure, say N. 696aee16ce7SPavel Emelyanov 69774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanovconfig PID_NS 69874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)" 69974bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov default n 70074bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL 70174bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov help 70212d2b8f9SHeikki Orsila Support process id namespaces. This allows having multiple 703692105b8SMatt LaPlante processes with the same pid as long as they are in different 70474bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers. 70574bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 70674bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov Unless you want to work with an experimental feature 70774bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov say N here. 70874bd59bbSPavel Emelyanov 709d6eb633fSMatt Helsleyconfig NET_NS 710d6eb633fSMatt Helsley bool "Network namespace" 711d6eb633fSMatt Helsley default n 712d6eb633fSMatt Helsley depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL && NET 713d6eb633fSMatt Helsley help 714d6eb633fSMatt Helsley Allow user space to create what appear to be multiple instances 715d6eb633fSMatt Helsley of the network stack. 716d6eb633fSMatt Helsley 717f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovikconfig BLK_DEV_INITRD 718f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support" 719f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik depends on BROKEN || !FRV 720f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik help 721f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the 722f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root 723f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to 724f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system, 725f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details. 726f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 727f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this 728f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds 729f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size. 730f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 731f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik If unsure say Y. 732f991633dSDimitri Gorokhovik 733c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanif BLK_DEV_INITRD 734c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 735dbec4866SSam Ravnborgsource "usr/Kconfig" 736dbec4866SSam Ravnborg 737c33df4eaSJean-Paul Samanendif 738c33df4eaSJean-Paul Saman 739c45b4f1fSLinus Torvaldsconfig CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE 74096fffeb4SIngo Molnar bool "Optimize for size" 741c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds default y 742c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds help 743c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc 744c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds resulting in a smaller kernel. 745c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 746775a7229Sjkacur If unsure, say Y. 747c45b4f1fSLinus Torvalds 7480847062aSRandy Dunlapconfig SYSCTL 7490847062aSRandy Dunlap bool 7500847062aSRandy Dunlap 751b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig ANON_INODES 752b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool 753b943c460SRandy Dunlap 7541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsmenuconfig EMBEDDED 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows certain base kernel options and settings 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Only use this if you really know what you are doing. 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 762ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig UID16 763ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED 76409337f50SDavid S. Miller depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) 765ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert default y 766ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert help 767ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. 768ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 769b89a8171SEric W. Biedermanconfig SYSCTL_SYSCALL 7700847062aSRandy Dunlap bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED 77126a7034bSEric W. Biederman depends on PROC_SYSCTL 77213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman default y 773b89a8171SEric W. Biederman select SYSCTL 774b89a8171SEric W. Biederman ---help--- 77513bb7e37SEric W. Biederman sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging 77613bb7e37SEric W. Biederman to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys 77713bb7e37SEric W. Biederman using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this 77813bb7e37SEric W. Biederman information. 779b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 78013bb7e37SEric W. Biederman Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are 78113bb7e37SEric W. Biederman trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this, 78213bb7e37SEric W. Biederman making your kernel marginally smaller. 783b89a8171SEric W. Biederman 78413bb7e37SEric W. Biederman If unsure say Y here. 785ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 7861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS 787979c6a1eSJesper Juhl bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_ALL 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other 800f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 801f9f97bc0SJesper Juhl and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say N. 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on KALLSYMS 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 816d59745ceSMatt Mackall 817712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartmanconfig HOTPLUG 818712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED 819712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman default y 820712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman help 821712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent 822712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider 823712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a 824712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. 825712f47ceSGreg Kroah-Hartman 826d59745ceSMatt Mackallconfig PRINTK 827d59745ceSMatt Mackall default y 828d59745ceSMatt Mackall bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED 829d59745ceSMatt Mackall help 830d59745ceSMatt Mackall This option enables normal printk support. Removing it 831d59745ceSMatt Mackall eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image 832d59745ceSMatt Mackall and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it 833d59745ceSMatt Mackall very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is 834d59745ceSMatt Mackall strongly discouraged. 835d59745ceSMatt Mackall 836c8538a7aSMatt Mackallconfig BUG 837c8538a7aSMatt Mackall bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED 838c8538a7aSMatt Mackall default y 839c8538a7aSMatt Mackall help 840c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing 841c8538a7aSMatt Mackall the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring 842c8538a7aSMatt Mackall numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this 843c8538a7aSMatt Mackall option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. 844c8538a7aSMatt Mackall Just say Y. 845c8538a7aSMatt Mackall 846708e9a79SMatt Mackallconfig ELF_CORE 847708e9a79SMatt Mackall default y 848708e9a79SMatt Mackall bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED 849708e9a79SMatt Mackall help 850708e9a79SMatt Mackall Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. 851708e9a79SMatt Mackall 852e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeevconfig PCSPKR_PLATFORM 853e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev bool "Enable PC-Speaker support" if EMBEDDED 854e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev depends on ALPHA || X86 || MIPS || PPC_PREP || PPC_CHRP || PPC_PSERIES 855e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev default y 856e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev help 857e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev This option allows to disable the internal PC-Speaker 858e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev support, saving some memory. 859e5e1d3cbSStas Sergeev 8601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_FULL 8611da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 8621da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds but may reduce performance. 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FUTEX 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 87123f78d4aSIngo Molnar select RT_MUTEXES 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds run glibc-based applications correctly. 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPOLL 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 880448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds support for epoll family of system calls. 8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 885fba2afaaSDavide Libenziconfig SIGNALFD 886fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 887448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 888fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi default y 889fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi help 890fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals 891fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi on a file descriptor. 892fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 893fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 894fba2afaaSDavide Libenzi 895b215e283SDavide Libenziconfig TIMERFD 896b215e283SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 897448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 898b215e283SDavide Libenzi default y 899b215e283SDavide Libenzi help 900b215e283SDavide Libenzi Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer 901b215e283SDavide Libenzi events on a file descriptor. 902b215e283SDavide Libenzi 903b215e283SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 904b215e283SDavide Libenzi 905e1ad7468SDavide Libenziconfig EVENTFD 906e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED 907448e3ceeSAdrian Bunk select ANON_INODES 908e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi default y 909e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi help 910e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both 911e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications. 912e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 913e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi If unsure, say Y. 914e1ad7468SDavide Libenzi 9151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHMEM 9161da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED 9171da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 9181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MMU 9191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9201da177e4SLinus Torvalds The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. 9211da177e4SLinus Torvalds It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported 9221da177e4SLinus Torvalds to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this 9231da177e4SLinus Torvalds option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, 9241da177e4SLinus Torvalds which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. 9251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 926ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoniconfig AIO 927ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni bool "Enable AIO support" if EMBEDDED 928ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni default y 929ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni help 930ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni This option enables POSIX asynchronous I/O which may by used 931ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling 932ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni this option saves about 7k. 933ebf3f09cSThomas Petazzoni 934cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9350793a61dSThomas Gleixner bool 936018df72dSMike Frysinger help 937018df72dSMike Frysinger See tools/perf/design.txt for details. 9380793a61dSThomas Gleixner 939906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig PERF_USE_VMALLOC 940906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool 941906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 942906010b2SPeter Zijlstra See tools/perf/design.txt for details 943906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 94457c0c15bSIngo Molnarmenu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters" 9450793a61dSThomas Gleixner 946cdd6c482SIngo Molnarconfig PERF_EVENTS 94757c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance events and counters" 94857c0c15bSIngo Molnar default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS) 949cdd6c482SIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 9504c59e467SIngo Molnar select ANON_INODES 9510793a61dSThomas Gleixner help 95257c0c15bSIngo Molnar Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 95357c0c15bSIngo Molnar by software and hardware. 9540793a61dSThomas Gleixner 955dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Software events are supported either built-in or via the 95657c0c15bSIngo Molnar use of generic tracepoints. 95757c0c15bSIngo Molnar 95857c0c15bSIngo Molnar Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 95957c0c15bSIngo Molnar counter registers. These registers count the number of certain 9600793a61dSThomas Gleixner types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses 9610793a61dSThomas Gleixner suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the 9620793a61dSThomas Gleixner kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts 9630793a61dSThomas Gleixner when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be 9640793a61dSThomas Gleixner used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 9650793a61dSThomas Gleixner 96657c0c15bSIngo Molnar The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 967dd77038dSThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a 96857c0c15bSIngo Molnar system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 9690793a61dSThomas Gleixner provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 9700793a61dSThomas Gleixner capabilities on top of those. 9710793a61dSThomas Gleixner 9720793a61dSThomas Gleixner Say Y if unsure. 9730793a61dSThomas Gleixner 97457c0c15bSIngo Molnarconfig PERF_COUNTERS 97557c0c15bSIngo Molnar bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)" 97657c0c15bSIngo Molnar depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 97757c0c15bSIngo Molnar help 97857c0c15bSIngo Molnar This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS 97957c0c15bSIngo Molnar config option - please see that one for details. 98057c0c15bSIngo Molnar 98157c0c15bSIngo Molnar It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable 98257c0c15bSIngo Molnar it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder. 98357c0c15bSIngo Molnar 98457c0c15bSIngo Molnar Say N if unsure. 98557c0c15bSIngo Molnar 986906010b2SPeter Zijlstraconfig DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC 987906010b2SPeter Zijlstra default n 988906010b2SPeter Zijlstra bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers" 989906010b2SPeter Zijlstra depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL 990906010b2SPeter Zijlstra select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 991906010b2SPeter Zijlstra help 992906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers. 993906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 994906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Mostly useful for debugging the vmalloc code on platforms 995906010b2SPeter Zijlstra that don't require it. 996906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 997906010b2SPeter Zijlstra Say N if unsure. 998906010b2SPeter Zijlstra 9990793a61dSThomas Gleixnerendmenu 10000793a61dSThomas Gleixner 1001f8891e5eSChristoph Lameterconfig VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 1002f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter default y 1003f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED 1004f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter help 10052aea4fb6SPaul Jackson VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown. 10062aea4fb6SPaul Jackson This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters 10072aea4fb6SPaul Jackson on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts 10082aea4fb6SPaul Jackson if VM event counters are disabled. 1009f8891e5eSChristoph Lameter 10103d137310SThomas Petazzoniconfig PCI_QUIRKS 10113d137310SThomas Petazzoni default y 101261cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven bool "Enable PCI quirk workarounds" if EMBEDDED 101361cfc7e4SGeert Uytterhoeven depends on PCI 10143d137310SThomas Petazzoni help 10153d137310SThomas Petazzoni This enables workarounds for various PCI chipset 10163d137310SThomas Petazzoni bugs/quirks. Disable this only if your target machine is 10173d137310SThomas Petazzoni unaffected by PCI quirks. 10183d137310SThomas Petazzoni 101941ecc55bSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB_DEBUG 102041ecc55bSChristoph Lameter default y 102141ecc55bSChristoph Lameter bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED 1022f6acb635SChristoph Lameter depends on SLUB && SYSFS 102341ecc55bSChristoph Lameter help 102441ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can 102541ecc55bSChristoph Lameter result in significant savings in code size. This also disables 102641ecc55bSChristoph Lameter SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be 102741ecc55bSChristoph Lameter no support for cache validation etc. 102841ecc55bSChristoph Lameter 1029b943c460SRandy Dunlapconfig COMPAT_BRK 1030b943c460SRandy Dunlap bool "Disable heap randomization" 1031b943c460SRandy Dunlap default y 1032b943c460SRandy Dunlap help 1033b943c460SRandy Dunlap Randomizing heap placement makes heap exploits harder, but it 1034b943c460SRandy Dunlap also breaks ancient binaries (including anything libc5 based). 1035b943c460SRandy Dunlap This option changes the bootup default to heap randomization 1036692105b8SMatt LaPlante disabled, and can be overridden at runtime by setting 1037b943c460SRandy Dunlap /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space to 2. 1038b943c460SRandy Dunlap 1039b943c460SRandy Dunlap On non-ancient distros (post-2000 ones) N is usually a safe choice. 1040b943c460SRandy Dunlap 104181819f0fSChristoph Lameterchoice 104281819f0fSChristoph Lameter prompt "Choose SLAB allocator" 1043a0acd820SChristoph Lameter default SLUB 104481819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 104581819f0fSChristoph Lameter This option allows to select a slab allocator. 104681819f0fSChristoph Lameter 104781819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLAB 104881819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLAB" 104981819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 105081819f0fSChristoph Lameter The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work 105134013886SChristoph Lameter well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in 105202f56210SSimon Arlott per cpu and per node queues. 105381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 105481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLUB 105581819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" 105681819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 105781819f0fSChristoph Lameter SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage 105881819f0fSChristoph Lameter instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach). 105981819f0fSChristoph Lameter Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead 106081819f0fSChristoph Lameter of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently 106102f56210SSimon Arlott and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for 106202f56210SSimon Arlott a slab allocator. 106381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 106481819f0fSChristoph Lameterconfig SLOB 106584a01c2fSPaul Mundt depends on EMBEDDED 106681819f0fSChristoph Lameter bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)" 106781819f0fSChristoph Lameter help 106837291458SMatt Mackall SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler 106937291458SMatt Mackall allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but 107037291458SMatt Mackall does not perform as well on large systems. 107181819f0fSChristoph Lameter 107281819f0fSChristoph Lameterendchoice 107381819f0fSChristoph Lameter 1074ea637639SJie Zhangconfig MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED 1075ea637639SJie Zhang bool "Allow mmapped anonymous memory to be uninitialized" 1076ea637639SJie Zhang depends on EMBEDDED && !MMU 1077ea637639SJie Zhang default n 1078ea637639SJie Zhang help 1079ea637639SJie Zhang Normally, and according to the Linux spec, anonymous memory obtained 1080ea637639SJie Zhang from mmap() has it's contents cleared before it is passed to 1081ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Enabling this config option allows you to request that 1082ea637639SJie Zhang mmap() skip that if it is given an MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag, thus 1083ea637639SJie Zhang providing a huge performance boost. If this option is not enabled, 1084ea637639SJie Zhang then the flag will be ignored. 1085ea637639SJie Zhang 1086ea637639SJie Zhang This is taken advantage of by uClibc's malloc(), and also by 1087ea637639SJie Zhang ELF-FDPIC binfmt's brk and stack allocator. 1088ea637639SJie Zhang 1089ea637639SJie Zhang Because of the obvious security issues, this option should only be 1090ea637639SJie Zhang enabled on embedded devices where you control what is run in 1091ea637639SJie Zhang userspace. Since that isn't generally a problem on no-MMU systems, 1092ea637639SJie Zhang it is normally safe to say Y here. 1093ea637639SJie Zhang 1094ea637639SJie Zhang See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. 1095ea637639SJie Zhang 1096125e5645SMathieu Desnoyersconfig PROFILING 1097b309a294SRobert Richter bool "Profiling support" 1098125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers help 1099125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechanisms used 1100125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers by profilers such as OProfile. 1101125e5645SMathieu Desnoyers 11025f87f112SIngo Molnar# 11035f87f112SIngo Molnar# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be 11045f87f112SIngo Molnar# dynamically changed for a probe function. 11055f87f112SIngo Molnar# 110697e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyersconfig TRACEPOINTS 11075f87f112SIngo Molnar bool 110897e1c18eSMathieu Desnoyers 1109fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyerssource "arch/Kconfig" 1110fb32e03fSMathieu Desnoyers 111107fe7cb7SDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK 111207fe7cb7SDavid Howells default n 11131c2d008cSDavid Howells bool 111407fe7cb7SDavid Howells help 111507fe7cb7SDavid Howells The slow work thread pool provides a number of dynamically allocated 111607fe7cb7SDavid Howells threads that can be used by the kernel to perform operations that 111707fe7cb7SDavid Howells take a relatively long time. 111807fe7cb7SDavid Howells 111907fe7cb7SDavid Howells An example of this would be CacheFiles doing a path lookup followed 112007fe7cb7SDavid Howells by a series of mkdirs and a create call, all of which have to touch 112107fe7cb7SDavid Howells disk. 112207fe7cb7SDavid Howells 11231c2d008cSDavid Howells See Documentation/slow-work.txt. 11241c2d008cSDavid Howells 1125f13a48bdSDavid Howellsconfig SLOW_WORK_DEBUG 1126f13a48bdSDavid Howells bool "Slow work debugging through debugfs" 11278fba10a4SDavid Howells default n 1128f13a48bdSDavid Howells depends on SLOW_WORK && DEBUG_FS 11298fba10a4SDavid Howells help 1130f13a48bdSDavid Howells Display the contents of the slow work run queue through debugfs, 11318fba10a4SDavid Howells including items currently executing. 11328fba10a4SDavid Howells 11338fba10a4SDavid Howells See Documentation/slow-work.txt. 11348fba10a4SDavid Howells 11351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu # General setup 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1137ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkovconfig HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 1138ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov bool 1139ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov default n 1140ee7e5516SDmitry Baryshkov 1141158a9624SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLABINFO 1142158a9624SLinus Torvalds bool 1143158a9624SLinus Torvalds depends on PROC_FS 11440f389ec6SChristoph Lameter depends on SLAB || SLUB_DEBUG 1145158a9624SLinus Torvalds default y 1146158a9624SLinus Torvalds 1147ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbertconfig RT_MUTEXES 1148ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert boolean 1149ae81f9e3SChuck Ebbert 11501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BASE_SMALL 11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds int 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 0 if BASE_FULL 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds default 1 if !BASE_FULL 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 115566da5733SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig MODULES 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable loadable module support" 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds useful for infrequently used options which are not required 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds for booting. For more information, see the man pages for 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, you will need to run "make 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds this). 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11750b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayif MODULES 11760b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 1177826e4506SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_LOAD 1178826e4506SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module loading" 1179826e4506SLinus Torvalds default n 1180826e4506SLinus Torvalds help 118191e37a79SRusty Russell Allow loading of modules without version information (ie. modprobe 118291e37a79SRusty Russell --force). Forced module loading sets the 'F' (forced) taint flag and 118391e37a79SRusty Russell is usually a really bad idea. 1184826e4506SLinus Torvalds 11851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_UNLOAD 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Module unloading" 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Without this option you will not be able to unload any 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable 1190f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko anyway), which makes your kernel smaller, faster 1191f7f5b675SDenys Vlasenko and simpler. If unsure, say Y. 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11931da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Forced module unloading" 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODVERSIONS 12040d541643SSam Ravnborg bool "Module versioning support" 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds unsure, say N. 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Source checksum for all modules" 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds see exactly which source was used to build a module (since 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds others sometimes change the module source without updating 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12240b0de144SRobert P. J. Dayendif # MODULES 12250b0de144SRobert P. J. Day 122698a79d6aSRusty Russellconfig INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE 122798a79d6aSRusty Russell bool 122898a79d6aSRusty Russell help 122998a79d6aSRusty Russell Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and 123098a79d6aSRusty Russell cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map 123198a79d6aSRusty Russell with all 1s, and others with all 0s. When they were centralised, 123298a79d6aSRusty Russell it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs 1233692105b8SMatt LaPlante and have several arch maintainers pursuing me down dark alleys. 123498a79d6aSRusty Russell 12351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STOP_MACHINE 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Need stop_machine() primitive. 12413a65dfe8SJens Axboe 12423a65dfe8SJens Axboesource "block/Kconfig" 1243e98c3202SAvi Kivity 1244e98c3202SAvi Kivityconfig PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS 1245e98c3202SAvi Kivity bool 1246e260be67SPaul E. McKenney 124716295becSSteffen Klassertconfig PADATA 124816295becSSteffen Klassert depends on SMP 124916295becSSteffen Klassert bool 125016295becSSteffen Klassert 12516beb0009SThomas Gleixnersource "kernel/Kconfig.locks" 1252